Abstract

This research offers a postmodern reading of E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime which is labeled as a Historiographical Metafiction and highlights some of the avant-garde strategies Doctorow utilize to reframe the contemporary historical narrative. It studies the novel’s conscientious construction which blends fiction with historical information in order to offer a peculiar vision of the American society during the ragtime era. It also analyzes some characters in order to expose Doctorow’s notion of the indeterminacy of the past and suggests that the historical records have always forged a naive and sentimental image of the past in people’s mind.

Presenters

Marwan Abdi
Lecturer, English, University of Duhok, Iraq

Details

Presentation Type

Poster Session

Theme

Literary Humanities

KEYWORDS

Metafiction, New-Historicism

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